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Will Scottish independence really be 'Brexit times ten'?

18 September 2021

4:00 PM

18 September 2021

4:00 PM

Scottish civil servants are to start work on a ‘detailed prospectus’ for independence so the Scottish government can hold another referendum ‘when the Covid crisis has passed’, Nicola Sturgeon announcedearlier this month.

The irony of this – coming just days before theOffice for National Statistics reported that the percentage of Scots testing positive in a single week for Covid-19 equated to around one in 45 people – was lost on the First Minister.

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